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Nicholas A. Sinatra

In 2009, Mr. Sinatra founded a real estate investment firm
focused on the Western New York and Southern California areas
called Sinatra & Company Real Estate. The entrepreneurial
company invests in distressed multi-family and retail real
estate.

Since inception, it has acquired over 600 apartment units and
650,000 SF of commercial space with more in the pipeline. In 2010,
Nick opened a brokerage and property management arm of the business
called Sinatra and Company Realty. In 2012, Nick expanded his
footprint into California as the founding partner of American
Residential Partners, the precursor to American Coastal Properties.
American Coastal Properties is a boutique residential real estate
investment firm that specializes in repositioning properties in
coastal California markets with the backing of over $75M in
institutional capital, including Colony Capital and the
Pritzker/Vlock Family Office. In total, Sinatra and Company Real
Estate and its affiliates have $150M in assets under management
with over 1 million square feet of real estate in upstate New York
and southern California.

Prior to founding Sinatra & Company Real Estate, Nick
Sinatra served as Associate Political Director at the White House,
where he managed President Bush’s Political Affairs in the
Northeastern part of the United States. He previously served as
Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Liaison,
where he acted as the President Bush’s liaison to the
Catholic, Italian American and Eastern European American
communities. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in April
2005 as Deputy Associate Director for Intergovernmental Affairs. In
that capacity, Nick was a White House liaison to all state
legislators, Secretaries of State, State Treasurers, and tribal
leaders across the United States.

Before joining the Bush Administration in April 2005, Nick
worked in Governor George Pataki’s economic development
agency in Buffalo, NY, The Empire State Development Agency. There,
Nick was involved in the development deal that brought
GEICO’s 2300-job call center to Amherst, NY.

A graduate of the Yale University, Nick also received his MBA
with a concentration in Real Estate Finance at the Wharton School
of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.